A few questions with Monica Cook
Monica Cook’s paintings are uncomfortably beautiful. Walking around her current show at the Marcia Wood Gallery, you might have the feeling that you’ve interrupted something very personal and very real. Her nearly-life-size, photo realistic portraits stare back at you from curiously debaucherous scenes. The effect is as disquieting as it is mesmerizing. In Seeded and Soiled, women gorge on a feast of octopus, pomegranites, fish, and watermelon. Hundreds of identical women brawl with one another and attack a giant person that gives them a Lilliputian scale.
Ms. Cook was kind enough to respond to a few questions about the show. Her answers, some images, and info from the gallery after the jump.